the 13th amendment outlawing slavery. i don t know how you can mr. hiter, let me ask you one question. last question of the night. why do you deny the civil war was is over slavery? are you offended by that charge or what? you think that s not a reasonable assumption? i do. abraham lincoln was quite clear in his first inaugurate ral inaugural address that he fully supported slavery. he signed the 13th amendment, which guaranteed slavery. the original confederacy was formed by seven states, lincoln s invasion of the south took six more out of the union. no, it didn t start over slavery. before it was over, was slavery an issue, absolutely. was, in fact, slavery an issue from the beginning? in part, sure. john brown came from kansas and tried to start a slave insurrection in virginia before the war. so was slavery an issue? absolutely. slavery was the great moral issue of that century. and it was a great moral what side would you have been on in that fight to free the slaves?
the 13th amendment outlawing slavery. i don t know how you can mr. hiter, let me ask you one question. last question of the night. why do you deny the civil war was is over slary? are you offended by that charge or what? you think that s not a reasonable assumption? i do. abraham lincoln was quite clear in his first inaugurate r inaugural address that he fully supported slavery. he signed the 13th amendment, which guaranteed slavery. the original confederacy was formed by seven states, lincoln s invasion of the south took six more out of the union. no, it didn t start over slavery. before it was over, was sleryav an issue, absolutely. was, in fact, slavery an issue from the beginning? in part, sure. john brown came from kansas and tried to start a slave insurrection in virginia before the war. so was slavery an issue? absolutely. slavery was the great moral issue of that century. and it was a great moral what side would you have been
slaves on the side of the slaveholders or the slaves. fight to free the slaves. that s the fundamental misassumption you re making. the war didn t even involve slavery. john brown, was john brown a good or a bad guy. john brown was a bad guy. john brown was a terrorist. okay, thank you. and had i found myself alive in those days, i think, i hope to pray to god i would have thought the way that my ancestors did for the south. thank you for joining us and being so forthright. thank you eugene robinson for being on the right. what president obama needs to make sure to make sure that he has a good presidency. you re watching hardball only on msnbc. ah, it s stinging a little bit more than usual! yeah, you ll get used to it. the longer you keep your high mileage car, the more it pays you back. get castrol gtx high mileage. it helps engines last longer by fighting the main causes of engine failure. i think a dime went up my nose. yeah, it happens. don t change your car. chang
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it was an illegal act and the illegalalty was by the civil war. this was not something to celebrate. it would be like celebrating some big terrorist attack or something like that, which in fact there was 150 years ago, there was an attack against ft. sumter that began the civil war. it is a celebration of slavery because that s what the civil war is about andabout, and, by you know a proud native of south carolina, somehow my invitation to the succession ball must have gotten lost in the mail. but but do they have the right to do it? of course they have the right to do it. we do have civil liberty of this country. you know some people would say my son thomas an actor but we went out to one of these reenactments out in the